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>> when you see the women fight, they're usually on the show. >> the fiercest female fighter of the unc. she went from marine corps sergeant to guerrilla. >> i know the afghan people appreciate our presence here. >> 1958, 19-year-old charles starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a killing spree across the great plains.
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11 died. >> you believe she was not held hostage? >> no. >> why this is still making headlines. >> that's next on fox files. >> it's all over! >> when you see the women fight, they usually steal the show. >> my goal has always been to burn myself out, push myself as hard as i can so there's nothing left. >> and a takedown. >> the number one thing i have learned from judo in general is to not have any fear. >> the ufc or the ultimate fighting championship has come a long way since it's inception in 1993 when it was bought in 2001 by dana white, president of the ufc and his partners the fertita brothers. >> congratulations on your first show, it's got to feel good. >> thank you very much, james, i
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appreciate it. >> you took over this company when it was in a serious financial hole? >> i called my partners and said, you know, i think the ufc is in trouble, i think we should buy it. it would be interesting. and a month later we own it. >> how much did you purchase it for? >> $2 million. >> and how much is it worth today? >> a lot more than $2 million. >> a lot more than $2 million is an understatement. today the ufc brings in an estimated $6 billion a year. recently they signed a lucrative broadcast deal. >> we're the most valuable franchise on earth. we're in over a billion homes worldwide and we're the largest pay-per-view provider in the world. i don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what listening you speak, it's
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in our dna. the first ufc happened because they wanted to answer the age old question which fighting style was the best? and the answer to that age old question ended up being no one style was the best. you had to have a little piece of everything to be a complete fighter so you're talking about boxing, kick boxing, wrestling. >> recently women have been brought into the ufc family where they're held to the same rules and standards as the men. but a few years ago, tmz sports caught dana saying this. >> when are we going to see women in this sport? >> never. >> that guy was an idiot. oh, wait, that was you who said that. oh, my bad, i'm sorry. >> not only did i say they won't fight here, i stamped a never on here. >> and you said that because? >> because i saw a fight one time and it was a mismatch
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between two women and it completely turned me off to women fighting in mma. it's just a testament now to how much the sport has evolved that we can actually create an entire gigs in the ufc. >> so it wasn't a sexist statement on your part? >> no. everybody thought it was and everybody would accuse me of that and it was not sexist. i'm the furthest thing from that. >> they're not going find anything like me. >> fox files sat down with one of ufc's most dominating women fighters and current 135-pound bantamweight championship. rhonda rozi, she holds more wins coming by arm bar in the first round. >> i'm entirely emotionless when i walk into the ring. >> she's one of the most fierce competitors that i have ever met
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in my life. >> that sense of competitiveness started at a young age. growing up in north dakota, rhonda was a swimmer, but when she moved to l.a., she took up judo. this was not without a bit of resistance from her mother who just happened to be the first midwestern world champion in >> she didn't want me to do it. she thought people would expect too much out of me because i was her daughter, and she a-- >> i didn't speak very much and we moved to l.a. from north dakota so i had a very thick accent. >> so i was oh, geez for pete's sake, st. ann's is such a nice play to go. i just didn't fit in. so judo forced me to be one-on-one with a kid. and i didn't have to say anything, it force med to be social. >> judo would bring rhonda to the olympic stage where she was
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part of the 2004 and 2008 teams. she failed to medal in 2004 and was disillusioned by the life of an olympian. >> so after the 2004 olympics, you ran away from home, i understand? >> it pretty much came down to everything i did was dictated by someone else. so i ran away and got a job at a convenience store. >> while in upstate new york, rhonda still maintained a rigorous training regimen, but stayed away from the restrictive life of coaches and practices. >> i ended up moving to chicago for a while. i had no real coaches, no one was really coaching me. so i ended up having like one of the best years ever, i won the world cup and we haven't had an american woman do that in nine years and i was actually making a little bit of money. >> fortunately she had a change of heart and decided to give the olympics one more try. >> it went way better the second time around.
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>> bronze is definitely way better than nothing at all, right? >> yes. >> don't you think? >> yes, it was a very bumpy past. >> that bumpy past led rhonda to being the first american to medal in judo. and along the way, she picked up the taste for mixed martial arts. >> and at what point did you say i want in? >> we would have little fight nights where we would all get together and watch the fights that were on. and i remember one of them -- i just sat there and i thought, i could beat both those girls, i should be doing that right now, and i didn't want to say it because i was in the middle of an olympic run and everyone would call me an idiot. to this day i uh-oh! guess what day it is?? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is??
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how do you feel in general about women being a part of the ufc? >> i think it's great. having women fighters here, with the same opportunities than men do, i mean, they're just as skilled. >> i was looking for a sense of direction, i wanted something that had discipline. >> liz was born in louisiana but grew up in japan where she decided to follow in her father's footsteps and join the military. >> i knew that if i was going to do any branch of the military, it had to be the best of the best and the most challenging one and the marine corps of course was everything i was looking. >> how many tours of duty did you do? >> three tours of iraq? >> 2006, 2008 and 2009. >> during her tour in iraq, her friends introduced her to the hard hitting world of mixed martial arts. >> i don't just focus on martial
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arts. being that engaged and that involved in something, it was a game of chess that i could push myself to. >> there's a gear that she has that other human beings don't posse possess. when she turns that gear on, she leaves everybody in the dust. >> when did you take your first official lesson? >> the first official lesson was the day i got back from iraq. i was beaten up, so i was like, hey, i want to do this. >> this was with another girl, right? >> no, other men. >> they showed you no mercy? >> not at all. >> i have seen grown men that are professionals in mma come in and she serves them like they're children and leaves everybody crying. >> within six months she was fighting for the world title. so she's really good. >> on february 23, 2013, liz's
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hard work paid off and she became part of history. she earned the chance to fight the champion rhonda rowzi in the first ever title fight, and she would be doing it as the first ufc openly gay fighter. >> she had rhonda rowzi's back. >> to this day i still haven't gotten a single bruise from getting hit in a fight. i did get a bruise from liz giving me the cross face, but that was it. >> how did you feel when you didn't come out with the w? >> i did the best i could do, but i wanted more. of course that was my dream. i wanted to make history, i wanted to come out there with the title and not having that was kind of like a check for me.
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but it made me work that much fighter. >> liz is a good fight, huh? >> she's a great fight. i would not be surprised if she became back for more? >> another title? >> yes. >> against you? >> yes. >> liz make make that dream come true. in july 2013, in her second ufc fight, liz fought jessica androtte with a vicious ground and pound game. as both women continued to make headlines, rhonda rowzi's next challenge is being one of the first women to coach the reality show the ultimate fighter, against her most hated rival, misha tate. >> i knew they were going to set me up with something. >> hi. >> how was it coaching and not fighting? >> it's extremelily emotionally taxing. i care a lot about every single one of the girls on the scene.
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it's their whole lives on the line. it's their whole world to them. and it would be disrespectful for them for me not to take it just as seriously. >> is it about the team or about you and misha? >> just about me and misha. >> we have to have a sense of ca -- some people don't like being up front and being honest because it's not nice and it's not polite. >> their rivalry comes to a head this december when rhonda and misha are going to be fighting for the title.
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. he's been called the last general in one of america's longest wars. >> what's not changed is the will of this coalition. >> joe dun ford works around the clock and is constantly on the
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move. >> the people of afghan -- >> at nato supreme headquarters in belgium. >> i also look forward to working with general dunford. >> and the nation's capital washington, d.c. >> what's your view? general? what's your number? >> senator, i'm not going to give you a number, i'm going to give you a range. >> dunford follows a number of high generals who held the host. in 2013 he took command. we travelled to the battlefield to hear from the general firsthand. >> give me your sense of what victory is in this fight? >> we'll win when the afghan security forces are capable of providing security here in afghanistan. what we're trying to do now is to ensure that never again can afghanistan be used as a center
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for terrorism. >> jack keane served 47 years in the u.s. army. >> dunford earned the nickname fighting joe in iraq when as a colonel he led team five in their drive forth. you and i met each other on the way to a place called baghdad? >> that's exactly right. >> when did you have your first contact? >> we had our first contact immediately after the line of departure. >> give us a sense of how different it is from when we first met? >> the mission is more complicated. >> dunford moved up in rank to four star general. in 2012, president obama nominated him to lead the effort in afghanistan. at his confirmation hearing in capitol hill he spoke about the support he receives from the home front. >> joining me is my wife ellen, i'm fortunate to have her love
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and support, she is a great mother to our three children and also serves as a tireless advocate in the military family. >> recently my roommate who had met him through a gradual school prep class introduced me to him because she knew we had grown up in the same area. >> both joe dunford and his wife ellen have deep roots in the boston area. he was born in south boston and moved to quincy, massachusetts at age 12. the couple met in washington, d.c. he was a young marine captain. as for ellen -- >> i had come down here and was working as a physical therapist. >> i was taking a course at george washington university and ellen's roommate invited me over for dinner so the three of us had dinner on saturday night and i think about two weeks later i asked her out on a date. >> when you brought him home for the first time and said i'm going to marry this marine, what
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was your parents reaction? >> it was definitely a known kwaupt to them. >> about two years later, we were married. >> joe and ellen dunford started a life together, serving our nation, in a tradition that goes back generations. >> his grandfather's world war i trunk, we have his picture here. then his father worked in korea. >> clearly the hero in my life was my dad. >> the shot of joe's dad in a police uniform? >> he retired after a 40-year history. >> from the fire of the marine corps to the fire of being a policeman? >> yes. my father was a world war ii vet and that's his photograph. >> in 2011, the president
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announced that all u.s. combat forces would withdraw from afghanistan. >> by 2014, this process of transition will be complete. >> now carrying out that decision will be squarely on the shoulders of jim dun ford. >> after ten years of the coalition leading -- >> for general joe dunford, the challenge is today as to how to train, and assist the afghan forces as they carry on the fight all on their own. >> they're up to 52,000 now, which is the size of the afghan security forces. >> we accompanied a casualty evacuation training mission carried out by afghans who were trained by american advisors t commander of the afghan airway gave me his assessment.
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>> dunford is responsible for what happens in the u.s. -- >> there's a lot of concern, a lot of very expensive stuff is going to be left behind that the afghans can't use, fact or fiction? >> complete fiction. the only equipment we're going to leave behind is the equipment that the afghans can actually use. >> that doesn't mean this isn't a real challenge, it is. >> and a lot of it has to do with what kind of equipment are we going to leave them. >> what size of the force are we going to leave to help support them? >> we have a commitment to the afghan people after 2014. >> 20 years ago on another hot and dusty battlefield, joe
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dunford told me -- >> if they knew that i was looking out for them, that i was doing the right things for the right reasons. >> i admire that my husband has been able to be faithful to the people he serves with. >> i am very proud to serve with you. >> it is an extraordinary military force. >> i have never seen throughout my entire understanding of military history where so few are doing so much for so many and for such an extended period of time. >> dunford is well aware of the sacrifices made by america's military families. >> in the many, many years i have served in the marine corps, and all the time there was no insignificant amount of slack that was absorbed by the military families. >> one of your division commanders out here, happens to
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be from your neighborhood back in massachusetts. he describes you as one of the best of the best of quincy, massachusetts. is this a boston mafia over here? >> i don't think it's a boston mafia, but i think it's fair to say that boston is well represented here in afghanistan. >> he did make certain claims about the outcome of the world series. >> i would make a similar claim about the world series here in 2013, and i'm pretty of the the boston red sox will win. >> he's crazy. he's going to kill me. coulbe simple? well, now it is with truecar. just go to truecar.com, configure your car, and get connected... to a truecar certified dealer... for guaranteed savings. save time, save money,
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hundreds of people were killed in a suburb of damascus, the capital city. the senior obama administration official saying there is little doubt the assad regime gassed its own citizens. the mission is to determine
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whether chemical weapons were used, not who was responsible for firing them. and egypt's former president is in court for the first time since his release last week. he's been in a military hospital. mubarak answering charges in connection with the killing of hundreds of protesters in 2011. the former president was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. his sentence was overturned on appeal. mubarak can due back in court next month. i'm mary ann rafaerty. now back to "fox files." for your latest go to foxnews.com. charles starkweather and carol ann fugate. in january of 1958, the two left a bloody trail of terror on the great plains. and to this day, the mystery continues.
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was 14-year-old carol ann fugate charlie starkweather's hostage or a willing accomplice? >> you believe he was never being held hostage? >> no. >> i have looked in her eyes and i have watched her relive everything. she had nothing to do with it. >> do you think lincoln will ever forget the name charlie starkweather. >> absolutely not. >> dell harding was a 25-year-old cub reporter for the lincoln scar earning $70 a week. >> what was the timeline for these things to happen? >> a great time, a great place to grow up. >> dennis carlyle also grew up during the 1950s. along with his mother ger intrude, the family maintained living quarters inside the family jail. >> he was really a tough, mean guy and was two years ahead of me in school ux but he was four years older than i was. so that suggests something about how he did in school work.
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>> the starkweather family included six girls and one boy. >> they were scrambling to make a living. i think at the time they were in the garbage hauling business. >> hollywood was beginning to pay a lot of attention to juvenile delinquency. >> he was not very tall, kind of husky, redheaded. bow legged. >> people called him a little redheaded woodpecker, teased in school, but not too many people, i don't think, teased him because he would start a fight at the drop of a hat. >> he hated people and he used that as an excuse to say this is why i hate people because they were mean to me. >> linda batiste is a lawyer and co-author of "the twelve victim." >> he used that to probably fuel
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the hate he had already into more hatred. >> but there was one person, the 18-year-old starkweather didn't hate. he had eyes for a spunky and rebellious 13-year-old named carol ann fugate. >> she said, my god, he was so funny, he put me on a pedestal, he always wanted to buy me things. >> the two cruised around lincoln in charlie's beat up '49 hot rod. charlie was also a crack shot and really into guns and carol's parents didn't like him one bit. >> they probably weren't very impressed with him. as a person, they serge were concerned about the age difference between them. >> this empty lot is all thatry mains of where carol was living at the time, with her hard working stepfather, and her mother sell da. also giving there was her 2 1/2-year-old half sister jean.
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charlie's desire to buy things for carol soon became problematic. after getting fired and having a fight with his father, he was kicked out of the house. charlie was desperate for money. located here on corn husker highway, this used to be a crest gas station that charlie used to like to hang around. in the early morning hours of -- one employee working, 21-year-old robert holbrooke, who was married with a baby on the way. starkweather robbed him and then forced him at gunpoint to drive them both to a secluded area. >> he came in and robbed holbrooke, took hit out in a secluded area and killed him. >> do we even know how much money he got. >> i would guess under $100.
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>> charlie now saw himself as a genuineout law. >> he began telling carol, it's just you and me, we have got to go away together. >> at this point had she started to feel a little bit suffocated by him? she actually told him not to call her anymore? >> yes, she did. >> january 21st, 1958. knowing what happened at the bartlett home in belmont on that cold winter day depends on who you believe. one thing is known for sure. carol's stepfather and mother had been shot and stabbed to death. 2 1/2-year-old betty jean was bludgeoned whbe w rifle and stabbed with a knife. carol said she came home to find starkweather holding a gun on her. the then 46-year-old carol ann fugate he scribed what happened next.
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>> he had the gun in my face and had me sit in a rocking chair and this is when he told me that my family was over at this woman's house, and if i did what i was told, they wouldn't be hurt. all he had to do was make a phone call and they would die. >> a shot gun blast would cause a lot of damage and apparently he was able to clean it up before he came home. how was this possible? >> he had two hours to clean it up. >> the three bodies having been dump-in two sheds in the backyard went undiscovered for nearly two weeks as charlie and carol remained in the house. >> i think charlie's story is that he got into an argument with her stepfather and it escalated from there and ended up shooting the stepfather, her mother ran in screaming, he then killed her mother. >> and in your view, carol ann
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fugate was there, saw all of this and knew exactly what was happening to her family? >> no doubt in my mind. >> it is not true. it's not true. >> various people came to the home looking for charlie, trying to reach out to carol ann fugate's mother, and her demeanor was very hod? >> mrs. bartlett's mother wanted to get in the house. carol said we're all sick with the flu, you can't come in. carol had a sign on the door saying stay out, everybody was sick with the flu. and it was signed miss bartlett. >> the only miss bartlett was in the home was her little sister who couldn't read or write yet. and it was maybe somebody will figure this out and do something because i'm afraid to do something. >> other family members and even the lincoln police stopped by during the week but carol stopped them from coming inside. on february 27th, carol's
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grandmother finally had enough. she yelled at carol that she was returning with the police and a search warrant. charlie decided it was time to hit the road with carol. hours later, when the bodies of marion, velda and betty jean bartlett were discovered aball points bulletin was -- >> i only went with him because had to choice. >> she says that she was taken hostage and he says she came along willingly. >> i don't believe she was ever a hostage, at the bartlett house dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun.
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after fleeing the bartlett residence, charlie and carol went -- 70-year-old august meyer. >> family friend, knows charlie since he was a boy. what did they do to him? >> charlie claimed that august meyer came to the door carrying a gun and so charlie supposedly felt threatened and shot him. i think he just looked for an excuse to kill him. it was just another cold blooded killing. >> i'm thinking now, he's killed him, i know what he's capable of. and i'm going, oh, i better be very careful and don't cross him
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because if he could wipe out this man's life, what would hi do to me. >> after blasting away august meyer, starkweather got his car stuck in the mud outside of myers farm. while walking along the darkened highway, the two were spotted by two popular bennett teenagers, robert jenson and carol king. in a fateful decision, jenson offered them a ride. their bloody bodies were found the next day, jenson had been shot six times in the head. king once. her partially nude body had also been sexual low mutilated. >> yes. it's a terrible sight, i can close my eyes today and still see it, those two bodies down in the storm cellular, both of them shot to death and carol mutilated. >> carol ann fugate admits she
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did hold a gun on the couple at one point, and take $4 out of his pocket but claims she did it at starkweather's command. with six people murdered, charlie and carol drove back into bennett. the next morning, thigh cruised arrange the neighborhood, looking for a place to hide out. dumped jensen's car, and get a new one. >> they end up at a house that he became familiar with while he worked on the trash route? >> right. >> this is the home that stark weather chose to hold out in. carol ann wait -- inside were 46-year-old clara ward and her 41-year-old maid. armed with guns and a knife, charlie and carol ann terrorized
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the women for nearly 10 hours. >> so what happened at this house? >> that's a matter of dispute. the only thing that's not disputed is that there were people killed. mr. ward, his wife and their maid. carol's story is that charlie killed them all. charlie's story is that carol assisted in the knifings of the two women. charlie admit sthas he wrestled with mr. ward when he came home from work. >> while the murders were happening at the ward house t bodies of august myier, robert jensen and carol king were discovered in bennett. and everybody immediately knew who did it. >> charlie's car was stuck in the mutd at the meyer house, bob jenson's car was gone, i mean you put two and two together and figure it out. >> that night charlie and carol got into -- when the three bodies were discovered at the
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ward house the next day, lincoln verged on mass hysteria. >> governor victor anderson called in the national guard. schools were closed. guns were everywhere. lancaster county sheriff meryl carnoff now had nine dead bodies on his hands and no idea where charlie stark weather and carol ann fugate were. >> martin and i have made an appeal for all adjoining counties including omaha to send all available help they can to lincoln. >> with the police now looking for lauer ward's packard, charlie knew he needed a new set of wheels. >> unlucky guy. >> it was a fight, charlie shot him. but charlie's story is that his gun jammed.
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>> charlie's story is that -- and herself. charlie testified that he said, i think the quote was, he was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with -- starkweather was having trouble releasing the car's brakes when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> he did a u turn on the highway and parked bumper to bumper to the car. then he merged to the car and pointed a rifle at me and said, get your hands up, get your hands up or i'll kill you. >> coming up, joe sprinkle may not have realized it, but he was ♪
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stopping to help what he thought was a stranded motorist
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on wyoming's route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a madman named charles starkweather. >> i looked inside the car and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his feet under the controls and his hand laying over in the passenger side. so i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel, with my right hand i got the stock and then he got in the middle of the highway struggling for the gun. >> carol fugate watched as the two men batled on the desolate roadway. while a patrol car driven by officer bill roamer came upon the scene. >> she said, it's starkweather, he's crazy, he's going to kill me. >> within 30 or 45 seconds, had the gun and laying on my back
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partly in the ditch. i got to my feet real fast ready to keep fighting. but he was running down the highway and he jumped in a car. >> having seen roamer, starkweather floored it in lauer word's stolen packer. starkweather was finally captured after a high-speed chase. starkweather reportedly told his captors, quote, don't be rough on the girl, she didn't have anything to do with it. eight days of terror had finally come to an end. from lincoln, lancaster county sheriff and his wife gertrude went to wyoming to retrieve the young fugitives. they were both returned in separate cars to lincoln. charlie rode be w the sheriff. >> according to my mother she never said anything that would suggest that she's the innocent victim here. >> starkweather confessed to killing his first victim, gas station attend zant robert come
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berth. it's still a mystery while charlie and carol were tried separately only for the stabbing and killing of 17-year-old robert jensen. after a two week trial in may of 1958, starkweather was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. >> i was at the interview and watched carol, in her usual icy cold demeanor answer questions. >> did he say why he -- >> i presented to the public, you know, this person that, you know, well, you know, she's hard amped she's this, and she's that, not knowing that behind that was a person that was testified. >> starkweather testified against fugate kraming he was a participant in the killing spree.
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although facing the death penalty, carol was sentenced to life in prison. >> do you think she got a fair trial? >> yes, she was not charged with actually killing anyone. it's what you call felony murder, if you're a willing participant, you're equally guilty. >> john stevens berry, who was the co-author of "the twelfth victim j was -- >> in order to commit a crime, you have to act as a free agent. >> for charles starkweather, justice suz swift. she was executed shortly after midnight on june 25, 1959. dell harding was a witness. >> they gave him three jolts of electricity. he was raised up in the chair and down each time. and raised up, it looked like there was a leather mask over his face so you couldn't see his expressions. to me that was too quick and too merciful.
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>> in lincoln, lancaster county sheriff terry wagner showed fox filing the contents of the recently discovered wallet of charles starkweather. >> just a plainlet tooled wallet. his social security card, they were photographs from a picture booth of he and carol ann fugate together and he looked like a pretty normal lie guy. >> carol ann fugate spent 18 years in prison. she moved to michigan, where she lived quietly, working as a hospital orderly. carol made international headlines recently when she was critically injured in a car accident that killed her husband.
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